Arts centre pledge 'a great win for Kalgoorlie'

The Goldfields Art Centre president says the Liberal Party's election promise to retain ownership of the building and provide $5 million for its refurbishment is welcome but long overdue.

The Liberals have also promised to give the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder $300,000 for the next four years to manage it.

Kevin Blair says it has been a long fight.

"One of the great things that's come out of this is that the State Government's retaining ownership of the centre and [that] was a really big issue for the city," he said.

"So now that that issue's been removed from our local government they can then get on with the management of it.

"So the money that they're putting into it ... they [are] saying, 'yes we're going to fix it up but we're still going to own it'.

"So if anything else comes up, it'll be their problem.

"Yes look, it's a great win for the community here in Kalgoorlie - we've now got dollar figure assurances of what's going to happen to this centre going into the future and we've been fighting for this for a very long time and it's great to finally hear it come out, it has just taken a long time."